Evaluating Chicago's Violence Reduction Initiative

10 Mar 2014

“So do the math,” McCarthy said Monday at a news
conference in the Deering District police station, 3120 S.
Halsted St. “If over the last eight months, we’ve stopped 90
murders from occurring, are we being penny-wise and dollar
foolish if we worry about that [the overtime budget]?”

A paper I co-wrote with a classmate on Chicago’s controversial (and expensive) Violence Reduction Initiative has been published in the Nottingham Economic Review,
an undergraduate journal based at the University of Nottingham. You can read the publication here